1-1 By: Stiles (Senate Sponsor - Harris) H.B. No. 3190
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 2, 1997;
1-3 May 5, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 13, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 13, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the holding of certain court proceedings outside the
1-9 municipality designated as the county seat.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 292.002(b), Local Government Code, is
1-12 amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) The commissioners court may authorize places located in
1-14 the county but outside the municipality designated as the county
1-15 seat as auxiliary courts for the holding of [nonjury] court
1-16 proceedings and may designate those places as auxiliary county
1-17 seats for this purpose.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.
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